Immediately after the aftermath of the attacks, the United States Government decided to respond militarily, and began to prepare its armed forces to overthrow the Taliban regime it believed was harboring Al-Qaeda. Before the United States attacked, it offered an official to surrender Osama Bin laden before taking any action. The Taliban said that they would turn Osama Bin laden in to the United States if the U.S. can prove that the attacks were done only by him. They needed official proof before they can turn him in. Soon after, the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan, and together with the Afghan Northern Alliance removed the Taliban government in the war of Afghanistan.
As a result from the United States using their armed forces, Al-Qaeda training camps were destroyed and the plan made by the Taliban were disrupted. In September 2004, the U.S. Government commission investigating the September 11 attacks officially concluded that the attacks were conceived and implemented by Al-Qaeda operatives. In October 2004, bin Laden appeared to claim responsibility for the attacks in a videotape released through "Al Jazeera", saying he was inspired by Israeli attacks on high-rises in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. By the end of 2004, the U.S. Government proclaimed that two-thirds of the senior Al-Qaeda members from 2001 had been captured and interrogated by the CIA.
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